One of the many disturbing aspects of capital punishment is that it has no guarantee against mistaken convictions and executions.
Claudia Ricci | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics
If it were up to me, I would withdraw death penalty eligibility in all of the pending cases, and I would tell prosecutors never to seek the death penalty. There is the possibility of saving 49 lives.
Tom Gregory | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics
The passage of California's Prop 8 comes to many as a shock, to some as a wake-up call, and to the rest of America as no real surprise. In 2000, B...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
To put it bluntly, Texas wants President Bush to get out of the way of the state's plan to execute a Mexican for the brutal killing of two teenage gir...
New York Times | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Signaling an indefinite halt to executions in Texas, the state's highest criminal appeals court late Tuesday stayed the lethal injection of a 28-year-...
Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics